14-letter words containing h, a, f, t
- fast of esther — a Jewish fast day observed on the 13th day of the month of Adar in memory of Esther's fast of three days before petitioning her husband, King Ahasuerus of Persia, to spare the Jews from destruction by Haman.
- fathead minnow — a North American cyprinid fish, Pimephales promelas, having an enlarged, soft head.
- fatherlessness — The state or quality of being fatherless.
- fathomlessness — The state or condition of being fathomless.
- feather duster — a brush for dusting, made of a bundle of large feathers attached to a short handle.
- feather pillow — soft headrest stuffed with feathers
- feather-legged — cowardly.
- feather-veined — (of a leaf) having a series of veins branching from each side of the midrib toward the margin; pinnately veined.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- featherweights — Plural form of featherweight.
- feature-length — long enough to be made a feature; of full length: a feature-length story; a feature-length film.
- fete champetre — an outdoor festival or a garden party.
- field hospital — an organization of medical personnel with medical equipment for establishing a temporary hospital at isolated posts or in the field to support ground troops in combat.
- fifth monarchy — the fifth and final monarchy following the Assyrian, Persian, Greek (under Alexander the Great), and Roman monarchies, supposed to have been prophesied in Dan. 2.
- fighting chair — a chair fastened to the deck at the stern of a seagoing fishing boat for use by an angler in landing a large fish.
- fillister head — a cylindrical screw head.
- finsteraarhorn — a mountain in S central Switzerland: highest peak of the Bernese Alps, 14,026 feet (4275 meters).
- fireside chats — an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.
- fishing tackle — Fishing tackle consists of all the equipment that is used in the sport of fishing, such as fishing rods, lines, hooks, and bait.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flagship store — A flagship store is the most important store in a chain, often with the largest volume of sales, or the most up-to-date formats or layouts
- flannelmouthed — talking thickly, slowly, or haltingly.
- flash smelting — a smelting process for sulphur-containing ores in which the dried and powdered ore, mixed with oxygen, is ignited on discharge from a nozzle, melts, and drops to the bottom of a settling chamber. Sulphur is released mainly in its solid form, thus reducing atmospheric pollution
- flash spectrum — the emission spectrum of the chromosphere of the sun, which dominates the solar spectrum in the seconds just before and after a total solar eclipse.
- flashing point — flash point (def 1).
- flat character — an easily recognized character type in fiction who may not be fully delineated but is useful in carrying out some narrative purpose of the author.
- flight capital — funds transferred abroad in order to avoid high taxes or to provide for a person's needs if flight from the country becomes necessary
- flight feather — one of the large, stiff feathers of the wing and tail of a bird that are essential to flight.
- floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
- foley catheter — an indwelling catheter used for draining urine from the bladder and having an inflatable part at the bladder end that allows the tube to be kept in place for variable time periods.
- follow the sea — to make one's living by serving on oceangoing ships
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- food-gathering — procuring food by hunting or fishing or the gathering of seeds, berries, or roots, rather than by the cultivation of plants or the domestication of animals; foraging.
- foolscap sheet — a sheet of foolscap paper
- football match — a match played between two football teams
- football pitch — ground where soccer is played
- for the asking — If something is yours for the asking, you could get it very easily if you wanted to.
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- force the pace — to adopt a high speed or rate of procedure
- forenoon watch — the watch from 8 a.m. until noon.
- formal methods — (mathematics, specification) Mathematically based techniques for the specification, development and verification of software and hardware systems.
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- french mustard — a mild mustard paste made with vinegar rather than water
- freshness date — the last date, usually specified on the label or packaging, that a food, as bread, is considered fresh, although it may be sold, ordinarily at reduced prices, or eaten after that date.
- freshwater eel — any of a family (Anguillidae) of eels that live in streams, lakes, etc. and migrate to the sea to spawn
- friction match — a kind of match tipped with a compound that ignites by friction.
- friendly match — a match played for its own sake, and not as part of a competition, etc
- fringe theatre — theatrical performance that is unconventional or otherwise distinct from the mainstream
- fuller's earth — an absorbent clay, used especially for removing grease from fabrics, in fulling cloth, as a filter, and as a dusting powder.